guest

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who is invited to visit or stay at someone's home or an event.

   We had ten guests for dinner last night.

2. 2
   noun

   A person staying at a hotel or being served at a restaurant.

   Guests must check out by eleven o'clock.

3. 3
   noun

   A person invited to appear on a show or at an institution.

   Tonight's special guest is a famous singer.

4. 4
   verb

   To appear as a guest, especially on a TV or radio show.

   She guested on the talk show to promote her book.

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with Bavarian Gåst (“guest”), Dutch gast (“guest”), German Gast (“guest”), Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”), Vilamovian gost (“guest”), Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”), Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”), Faroese, Icelandic gestur (“guest”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”), Swedish gäst (“guest”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “gu…

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